The choice of exhibition topic appears as an anachronism in view of the increasingly fast, increasingly efficient and economically organised way we shape our time and lives. Never has so much been demanded of not only the natural but also the human world: we are pushed to our limits and sometimes beyond our limits. To meet the requirements of rapid growth, all kinds of resources are tapped and exploited… In the spirit of the prevailing ethos, everything should be more and more, faster and faster, newer and newer, cheaper and cheaper… penny pinching is hot…. and… lethal to our system of humanist values.

Faced with ubiquitous collapse, we set off in search of the endangered joie-de-vivre.